to my Genealogy Home Page!

This has been
my hobby for 30 years and though I have all this
information and pictures in books I have written, I have
been trying to put all of the information on these internet pages
so that others can enjoy what I've found. I love having a website because
I can keep the information up-to-date -- and I DO keep this site up-to-date.
I get lots of email from people who see my pages and want more information.
I usually will not have anything else other than what is here on these pages
or in my rootsweb
database, but I am happy to correspond with you and maybe we can work on
a problem together. These pages are mainly here so that
I can post not only information on my ancestors,
but also old pictures, documents, and links to more
information. If the family history information is not
yet up on each of these pages (not underlined), you can find
information on them by going to my rootsweb.com
page and searching for them by name. If you have information, OLD PICTURES,
or documents to share, I would LOVE to have more!!! (a genealogist
never gets enough information.)

This is a work
in progress! Please check back occasionally for updates.

Happiness keeps you sweet
Trials keep you strong
Sorrows keep you human
Failures keep you humble Success
keeps you glowing
But only JESUS keeps you going!

Ancestors and Their Families:

The 4 capitalized names
below are my grandparents (the last 2 rows are
my husband's).
To the right of each are their ancestors'
names. Names in black are families that I will eventually
have up. If any of these links don't
work, please let me know!!!Site Map:

Favorite Quotes:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left." (Ecclesiastes 10:2 NIV)

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to
worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling
"darkness" on the wall of his cell. -- C.S. Lewis
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power
to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution
and no property can bear taxation.
-- John Marshall. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1801-35.

A Nation of Sheep will beget a Government of Wolves. -- Edward
R. Murrow

Eventually,
Socialists run out of other peoples’ money…. --Margaret Thatcher
A liberal is a man who will give away
everything he doesn’t own. —Frank Dane

Ve get too soon oldt undt too late schmart.
(Pennsylvania German proverb)I don't
know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody. -- Bill Cosby

Search My Family Index On Rootsweb.com

My family database contains the genealogy information on 24,000+
individuals.

If you would like to check my database
to see if the information on your family is correct,
go to ancestor
file then search for the name of one of
your ancestors. (Only those born before 1930 or
who are no longer living are listed by name. I have names
of the "living," they are just not displayed in the online database.)
Pleaseemail
me if there are any corrections or additions!!

VonAllmen descendants:
. . . . . Especially
good reading is the Hay page - our
Scottish ancestors had a castle in Scotland! Plus, we
are related to Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of State,
John
Hay (he was a second cousin of great-grandma,
Mary Elizabeth Heral VonAllmen!)
. . . . . The
VonAllmen family was from Switzerland.
This page has some beautiful pictures!Jolliff descendants:
. . . . . The
Huddleston page has good stories
and pictures. Some of the Huddlestons had a castle in England.

. . . . .
The earliest Tatum was in Jamestown,
Va. in 1619. This is probably my
earliest immigrant ancestor!
. . . . . Our
Jolliff ancestor was frontier
preacher and an early settler in Kentucky, in the
same area and same time as Daniel Boone.
. . . . . Our
Casey ancestor was also
the ancestor of Mark Twain (picture
at right, see chart), which
makes me his 4th cousin, 3 times removed.

Willard descendants:
. . . . . The
Colyott page has some interesting
information about our French ancestor, Nicholas Caillot
dit LaChance on the Mississippi.
. . . . . The
Spurlocks were
early Kentucky settlers.
. . . . . Ancestor William Hancock arrived in
Jamestown, Va. in 1619 and was killed
in the Indian massacre in 1622. He participated in the first Thanksgiving
Day in America (Dec. 4, 1619) at Berkley Plantation, Virginia
. . . . . James
& Martin Willard
knew Abe Lincoln and split rails with him.

Lindesmith descendants and their
New England roots:
Since the Lindesmith ancestors came from
New England, there are many good records that go way back
to the 1600's. This is very helpful,
. . . . . One of these lines runs back
Lindesmith to Pease to Metcalf to Park to Fuller to Greenwood,
all the way back to John Greenwood
(1556-1593) who began the Puritan movement. He was executed for his teachings
in 1593 by Queen Elizabeth, but his followers, who fled to
Holland, later became the Pilgrims who came to Plymouth, Mass.
. . . . . Joseph
Lindesmith came
from Switzerland to America in 1769. He served
under Washington in the Revolutionary War and often
shaved him. He was with him at Cornwallis' surrender
at Yorktown in 1781.
. . . . . Joseph
Kingsbury
came to Boston in 1630 with John Winthrop.
. . . . . John
Pease
& his brother landed in Boston in 1634.
. . . . . The
first Metcalf arrived in Boston
in 1637. His son, Michael Metcalf, Jr. married Mary Fairbanks,
daughter of Jonathan
Fairbanks (Michael Jr and Mary were my
ancestors and also President Bushs' ancestors--both
of them!) This makes George W. Bush's my 10th cousin, once
removed! Another descendant of Jonathan Fairbanks
was the poet Emily Dickinson, making her my
7th cousin, 4x removed.
* Another of
Michael Metcalf, Sr.'s descendants (Thomas) married
a sister of Paul Revere. [Thomas6, John5, John4,
Jonathan3, Michael Jr2, Michael Sr1]
. . . . . The
Wrights were in Springfield,
Mass. by 1655. Several in their family were killed in an
Indian attack in 1708.

* In 1630 the
Wintrop Fleet sailed from England with 11 ships and
about 700 people. It was the beginning
of the "Great Migration." My ancestors among that group
were:Lucy
Weston (came with her mother and step-father;
she later married John
Pease)Robert
& Mary Pond (their ggg-grandson Oliver
Pond married a Metcalf in 1752, and Oliver's great-granddaughter
married a Pease in 1846.)
* Another Metcalf
ancestor, Peter
Palfrey, arrived in New England in 1623, just 2 years after the Pilgrims,
and helped found the city of Salem,
Massachusetts in 1626. Peter Palfrey's daughter
Remember Palfrey married Peter
Aspinwall and along with being my ancestors,
they also became the ancestors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which makes FDR my 5th cousin, 6 times removed.
See chart

I've never bothered to join
the DAR, but I have these ancestors on the DAR Patriot Index (2003 ed.)WILLARDCaillot, Nicholas (MO - PS*)Estes, Thomas (NC, soldier died in battle 1783)Hancock, John (VA)Spurlock, John Jr. (VA)Turman, Benjamin Sr. (VA
- PS*)
Henry Willard (is not on the DAR Patriot
Index, but his gr-gdaug said she remembers hearing
stories about him being in the Rev. War)LINDESMITH
Obed Metcalf (soldier MA)
Gideon Park (pvt, MA)
Christopher Pease I (VT, minuteman)
William Williams (pvt, MA)
Benjamin Wright Sr. (VT - PS*)
Joseph Lindesmith (is not in the DAR Patriot Index,
but he fought in the Rev. War and was at Cornwallis' surrender
at Yorktown. He was also Washington's barber)John Bridges (not in the Index,
but he was away fighting with the South Carolina militia when
his wife and children were burned out of their house in NC
by the Tories)
Obadiah Pruitt (not in the Index, but he
served in VA and applied for a pension)JOLLIFF:Graves Eaves (PS* NC),
John Whiteside (soldier NC),
Thomas Clark (Pvt PA)James Jolliff (the frontiersman) (not
in the Index, but a grandson of James' stated that his grandfather
was in the Revolutionary War "having served under Washington
until its close and received seven different discharges from the
War Department of the US."VONALLMEN:
Christopher Herrold, Sr (CS** PA)
Frederick Leathers, Jr. (Pvt PA)
John Shirk (soldier PA) [may have been at
Valley Forge]
Randolph Casey (is not in the DAR Patriot
Index, but he served in the 2nd SC Regt. with Francis
Marion)
Adam Hay (not in the Index, but he
provided patriotic service in VA to the army and was an
acquantance of Washington)[*PS - patriotic
service, other than soldier] [**CS - civil service]
Ancestors at the battle of Yorktown,
1781: Joseph Lindesmith,
James Jolliff,
and Obadiah
Pruett

Ancestor at
Valley Forge, 1778:John
Shirk (probably)
[James Jolliff's regiment was there but he is
not listed on the muster roll]

Signs on churches
in England:

~~~~
"A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free
to regulate their own pursuits
of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth of labor
the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government."
- Thomas Jefferson

Though my steps
are oh, so slow, With my hand in His I'll go.
On through
life, let come what may, He'll be there to lead the
way.

Though I am
no longer young, I have much which He's begun.
Let me serve
Christ with a smile, Go with others the extra mile

When the nights
are dark and long, In my heart He puts a song
Telling me
in words so clear, "Have no fear, for I am near."

When my work
on earth is done, And life's victories have been won.
He will take
me home above, Then I'll understand His love.

I love
Jesus, does he know? Have I ever told Him so?
Jesus loves
to hear me say, That I love Him every day.

~~~ GROWING UP IN MISSOURI ~~~

• You might not be quite a Southerner, but you're definitely
not a Northerner! • You've never met any celebrities.• Everyone you know has been on a "Float Trip." (High
school friends skipped school to go floatin'.)• "Vacation" means driving to Branson.• "Down south" means Arkansas.
• You know what "barn swinging" is, and probably have done
it.• Your local Dairy Queen is closed from September to
May.• You know several people who have hit a deer or a cow.• You've worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
• You've seen 11 inches of snow disappear the next day.• You pronounce Missouri with an "uh" at the end,
but you don't like for outsiders to call it that.• Your school classes were cancelled because of heat.• You've had to switch from heat to a/c in the same
day.
• You still pull off the road and stop for a funeral procession.• You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.• You've been to a picnic in a cemetery (on Memorial
Day, of course).• You've seen men wearing bib overalls and a white shirt
at a funeral.• You use an unnecessary pronoun,
such as, "I'm going to get me one of those."
• You end your sentences with
an unnecessary preposition, such as, "Where's my coat at?"
• You've heard someone say, "You'uns come back now."• You went to roller skating parties as a kid.• You think that the first day of "deer season" is a
school holiday.• You've run to a cellar or basement in your pajamas
during a tornado warning.• Even if you don't use them, you understand the terms
"fixin'" (I'm fixin' to) and "reckon" (I reckon so), "yonder" (over
yonder), and "directly" (I'll do that directly).• You can't think of anything better than sitting on
the front porch in the middle of a summer rain.• You've said, "It's not the heat; it's the humidity."• You think a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass
a tractor.• You know that Harry S. Truman, Walt Disney and Mark
Twain are all from Missouri.• You failed geography because you thought Cuba, Mexico,
California, Nevada, Louisiana, Buffalo, Houston, Macon, Memphis, Mount Vernon,
Savannah, Versailles, Glasgow, Paris, Warsaw, Cabool (Kabul),
New Madrid, New London, Hayti
(Haiti), and Springfield were all cities in Missouri (and they
are!)• You know what "Home of the Throwed Roll" means.

"You can say what you want
about the South,

but I've never heard
of anyone wanting to retire to the North."

I Am My Own Grandpa

(by Ray
Stevens - watch the video!)Many, many years
ago When I was twenty-three, I got married to a widow Who
was pretty as could be.
This widow
had a daughter Who had hair of red. My father fell in love
with her, And soon the two were wed.
This made my
dad my son-in-law And changed my very life. My daughter
was my mother, for she was my father's wife.
To complicate
the matters worse, Although it brought me joy, I soon
became the father Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby
then became A brother-in-law to dad. And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was
my uncle, Then that also made him brother To the widow's
grown-up daughter Who, of course was my step-mother.
Father's wife
then had a son, Who kept them on the run. And he became
my grandson, For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is
now my mother's mom. And it surely makes me blue. Because,
although she is my wife, She is my grandma too.
If my wife
is my grandmother, Then I am her grandchild. And every
time I think of it, It simply drives me wild.
For now I have
become The strangest case you ever saw. As the husband
of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!